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FUN! : What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life

1st ed. 2016

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1137491787
ISBN-13 9781137491787
Edition 1st ed. 2016
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint Palgrave Pivot
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 5th, 2015
Print length 131 Pages
Weight 292 grams
Dimensions 15.70 x 22.00 x 1.60 cms
Ksh 9,900.00
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It demonstrates that fun is at the heart of entertainment's effects – entertainment both offers its consumers fun and provides them with the intellectual materials to think about the nature of fun. More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us that fun – pleasure without purpose – is at the heart of living a good life.

Combining media effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. But what exactly is fun and what purposes does it serve? Fun is a vital element of entertainment, and entertainment is the most important form of culture in modern Western democracies. It demonstrates that fun is at the heart of entertainment''s effects - entertainment both offers its consumers fun and provides them with the intellectual materials to think about the nature of fun.

More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us that fun - pleasure without purpose - is at the heart of living a good life. Illustrated with detailed examples from entertainment - from the Urban Dictionary to The Simpsons, to the Culture novels of Iain M Banks - this book is intelligent, original, and even (dare we say it) fun.


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